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April 15, 2015

The poppies are starting to bloom so there's no better time for a few poppy cards. Here's the new Poppy Frame on kraft card stock. I stamped it twice and popped out one that I had colored with Prismacolors.

Here's the Single Poppy stamped in Memento inks. I used the first stamping of Love Letter and the second stampings of Lady Bug and Morocco.

Here's a close up of one of the early bloomers. These are the offspring from my friend, Dee's amazing garden. She gave me some seeds a couple of years ago and despite my doubts, they continue to pop up!

And here's Mr. Mister oblivious and unconcerned with the poppies in the backyard. Maybe if we get some sunny days I'll be seeing more red!

April 06, 2015

Here are a few more bluebonnet cards. If you are on the Facebook, you've already seen them but I know a lot of you don't play Facebook and good for you (although that probably means you're just wasting your time somewhere else like me)!

I embossed the Bluebonnet Frame in white and painted a little iridescent watercolors on top. I also added a little glitter but it doesn't show up too well in the photo.

I'm not sure what this card is called - it's sort of a stair step card but not quite.

I stamped the Texas Background in a light brown and stamped the bluebonnets right on top. You could mask the bluebonnets but I like the overlapping effect.

And now some watercolor bluebonnets. I painted a rectangle with some cheap watercolors on watercolor paper. I don't know much about watercolor except that my talents lie elsewhere! However, this is a pretty simple technique especially since it's supposed to look kind of random.

After you paint the shape, mask off around the edges you are stamping. On the one below, I let one bluebonnet go out of the frame.

You could also try using the ink from your re-inkers instead of watercolors. Just be sure to water them down or they will be too heavy. Make sure you use watercolor paper - either hot or cold press will work. And if you need some bluebonnets, you can find them HERE and HERE.

Now the poppies are popping up in my backyard so I guess that means I need to find my red stamp pads and get busy! More soon!